Innovation Practice Maturity Model

Last night as I was checking out some of the innovation blogs I read, I came upon an interesting post in Paul Williams’ Think For A Change blog.  The comments regarding his views on innovation maturity reminded me of a seminar I gave in Atlanta, last July, at a Design Excellency conference.  In that seminar, I presented an Innovation Practice Maturity Model and a roadmap for evolution.   In fact, the terminology I outlined in my post yesterday comes from that model.

In the past eight months since I have been talking about this model with Global 1000 companies, it has gained good traction because of its relevance to their innovation pain.  While the seminar was not recorded, I did have an opportunity to present a highly condensed version of the model on a webcast given by Frost & Sullivan.  The webcast can be found at the following link:
http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/ebroadcast.pag?eventid=75090771

Comments

[Paul R. Williams]

Jim:

This should have been a TRIZ moment for me (an idea has usually been discovered before). Don't know how I missed this presentation last summer.

Great presentation!

Your maturity model and mine line up quite well. I especially like your analysis of the "project-based" innovation practice employed by organizations as the eventual springboard toward a more formal approach to the discipline.

In comparison, my IM2 model was designed to provide organizations with alignment to a collection of best practice activities under what I would consider as the core set of innovation-related success attributes.

Looks like two similar roads headed to the same destination...repeatable, continuous and high-performing innovation.

Thanks again for the opportunity to look back at your presentation and model.

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Your maturity model and mine line up quite well. I especially like your analysis of the "project-based" innovation practice employed by organizations as the eventual springboard toward a more formal approach to the discipline.

In comparison, my IM2 model was designed to provide organizations with alignment to a collection of best practice activities under what I would consider as the core set of innovation-related success attributes.

Looks like two similar roads headed to the same destination...repeatable, continuous and high-performing innovation.

[hairy pussy]

Your maturity model and mine line up quite well. I especially like your analysis of the "project-based" innovation practice employed by organizations as the eventual springboard toward a more formal approach to the discipline.

In comparison, my IM2 model was designed to provide organizations with alignment to a collection of best practice activities under what I would consider as the core set of innovation-related success attributes.

Looks like two similar roads headed to the same destination...repeatable, continuous and high-performing innovation.

Thanks again for the opportunity to look back at your presentation and model. etc